News type: Press release

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    Slooh and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) celebrate the ten year anniversary of their collaboration and extend their groundbreaking public/private partnership to 2020
    The Canarian Observatories offer extraordinary potencial for scientific exploration of the Universe with more than 20 fully operational profesional telescopes...
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    Small, but greedy black holes revealed
    The journal Nature will publish tomorrow an article which helps to explain the mystery of the ultra-high luminosity X-Ray sources
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    Sobre las huellas de los "modos g"
    Clausurado el congreso HELAS de Sismología Solar y Estelar en La Palma
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    SOHO consigue escudriñar el corazón del Sol
    Un equipo internacional de astrofísicos ha detectado una señal que correspondería a la huella de los modos gravitatorios del Sol, buscados desde los orígenes de...
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    Solar physicists build a 2D model which can explain the bright points in the solar corona
    A numerical experiment conducted by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Daniel Nöbrega Siverio and Fernando Moreno Insertis, has...
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    Solved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky Way
    A team led by a researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has accurately measured the variation of oxygen abundance along the disc of our...
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    Solved: one of the mysteries of globular clusters
    A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements...
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    Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
    The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
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    Spain and Japan agree on the installation of four new telescopes on the island of La Palma
    The telescopes may form part of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array in the Northern Hemisphere (CTA-North) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.